Snow-removal apparatus



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ATTORNEY .KLAMT SNOW REMOVAL APPARATUS 5 Sheets5heet 2 Filed April 14, 1924 ATTORN EY WITNESS:

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J. KLAMT SNOW REMOVAL APPARATUS Filed April 14 E921; 3 Sheets-Sheet INVENTOR ATTORNEY PatentedlMar. 16, 1926.

UNITED JOSEPH KLAMT, OF HOWELL, NEBRASKA.

SNOW-REMOVAL APPRATUS.

Application filed april 14, 1924. Serial No. 706,493.

To aZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH KLAMT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Howell, in the county of Colfax and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Snow-Removal Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to means for clearing roadways and streets of snow; and it has for its general object to provide an apparatus designed more especially for handling new fallen snow, and embodying means for taking up and elevating snow and conveying the elevated snow laterally for discharge at one side of the path formed by the apparatus or for discharge into means for loading the snow into wagons or sleds.

Other objects and practical advantages of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the draw-ings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the apparatus constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Figure 3 is a cross-section of the apparatus.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Inlligure 1, I show the front portion of 'a tractor which may be of the well known Fordson type or of any other type without affecting my invention. The said tractor is equipped with a motor driven wheel 1, and its front axle is designated by 2.

Among other elements my novel apparatus comprises an appropriate main frame 3, the forward portion of the said frame being wheel-supported at 4, and the rear portion of the frame being equipped with rearwardly extending arms 5 that have portions 6 arranged in straddlingr relation on the tractor axle 2 and fixed thereto by screws 7 or other appropriate means.

Fixed to and 'carried by the main frame 3 is an inclined elevator frame 8 in which is arranged an endless elevator 9 having transverse lifts 10. The sprocket belts of thesaid elevator 9 are mounted on sprocket gears fixed to lower and upper transverse shafts 11 and 12, journaled in the frame 8.

Journaled in the lower portion of the frame 8 isa transverse rock shaft 13 to which is fixed a scraping shoe 14 extending transversely and adjustable vertically between the sides of said frame. At one end and exteriorly of the adjacent side of the elevator frame 8 the shaft 13 of the shoe 14 is provided with a worm gear 15, Figure 1.

Said worin gear 15 is meshed with a worm i6 on a shaft 17, and the said shaft 17 being journaled in bearings on the main frame 3 and being equipped-with a hand Wheel 18 at lts rear end it will be understood that the shoe 14 may be adjusted and adjustably .fixed with facility t'o meet different conditions of roadway and street as the same are encountered.

A transverse shaft 19 is carried vby the main frame 3, and by the said shaft is carried a sprocket gear 20, connected by a sprocket belt 21 with a sprocket gear 22 on rearwardly the snow elevated from the road-y way or pavement by a shoe 14, and from the forward stretch of the elevator 9, the snow is delivered over a transverse wall 32, Figure 2, to a transverse endless conveyor 33 equipped with spaced blades 34. The sprocket chains of the transverse conveyor 33 are mounted on sprocket gears- 35 on a shaft 3G and on sprocket gears 37 on a shaft 38. The shaft 36'is.also provided with a niiter gear 38 which isdesigned to be engaged alternately by reversely arranged miter gears 39 on a sleeve 40 that is splined. on a shaft 41 which is connected with the' before mentioned sha-ft through the medium of sprocket gears 42 and 43 and a sprocket lbelt 44, Figures 1 and 3. The sleeve 40 is provided with a circumferentially grooved extension 45, Figure 3, and connected with.

said extension is a handle lever 46'th'ro`u li the medium of which the sleeve 40 may adjusted endwise to bring aboutthe move# l ment of the upper stretch of the transverse conveyor 33 in one direction or the other Ythe shafts 3G and is provided `with en eiixliin'."u sprocket gen1' for the connection the sprocket bel-t 52, the sprocket belt 'being shifted. from one side of the appalfiatns to the other and connections similar to those shown at one side of the apparetns `heine nrovided at such other side :tor use in t conjonction with the discharge trowi'h eide of which is snsceptihleo on roit-lier theinain frame of the apparatus. l

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however, deem it necessary to illustrate "seid connections at both sides of the epparntne. With reference to 'this part of my invention it will be noted, however, that the @nain iframe 3 is nrovidedat opposite sides with cradles 54; in which is removably placed and supportedthe transverse shaft 53 of the endless conveyor 54g in. the trough 53X, the, said endless conveyor e having blades 55 and including sprocket holte which are passed around the shaft i3 end the second 'shaft 56 of the dischergetrongh and are connected to ysaid shafts by sprocket gears 57 thereon.. it will also he noticed in litiguref that the endlessl conveyor 5ft 1s driven through the medium of the belt 59, which engages the sprocket gear 58 on the shett 53 l it will be apparent from the foregoing that incident to the 'use of my novel tue, the forward movement ci the anni yrotos' through a tell ot' snow will clear through'the snow a path'or roadway corrcspending to thewwdth of the apparatus, the -snowbeing elevated ley-the conveyor 9 end being moved transversely of the apparatus by the conveyor r'to one side or the other fof the apparatus according to the direction l -in which the conveyor 33 is driven, and the 7 snow will be delivered through the open end ot the' trough 50 to Jthe lateral discharge trough 53", whereupon the conveyor 5e in said trongh 53* will discharge the /snow at one side or the othero thejapparatus accordingto Which sidearries the trough 53".

For they maintenance of the lateral dis- "cliarge' trough 53",-in Working position l also employ the rod 60 which is de tnchahly connected at its inner end to the mainframe 3 sothat it'canrbe 'used on either side ot v the appartus.

inasmuch asmyepparatus lis designed to handle newly fallen snow it will be erom' ent that "the apparatus need'not loe i heavy, and that therefore ,the apparato@ 'various changes and modifications ina in said lateral discharge he worked through the snow with' the ein penditnre ot' lout little powem l have entered into e detailed description lor' the construction and relative arrangeand relative arrangement of parte ,inasmuch as in the tutore practice et the invention be made such as tall Within the scope oit my invention as defined in my am)ended clninis,

Hoving described my invention, what ii claim and desire .toeeoure hy Lettemtbat` ent, isz@ y ,I It, .ein apparatus for removing snow adapted to be used in front of and lconnected with and moved by a tractor, the seid apparents comprising a .main frame the forward lportion of which is Wheei supported, an inclined elevator frame carried by the main frame, an endless conveyor arranged in said elevator frame, a shoe carried by the elevator trarne at the lower end thereof, a

transverse trough carried loy the main fra-me ond arranged to receive. snow from the 'fon Ward stretch of said conveyor and having removable end gates, transverse endless conveyor arranged in said trough, a lateral discharge trough removably supported etV its inner endv on the main traine ond detachable and shitahle bodily from one side of said Mm' main freine to the other, an endless conveyor trough, a transverse Shait yournaled 1n the am frame and adapted to bc rotated from n motor driven Wheel oi o tractor, drivingpajconncctions between said shaft and the olevgting and transverse conveyors, the driving connection coniplementaryto the transverse conveyor bein reversible, and a driving connection inclu ing a sprocket belt intermediate. of the transverse conveyor and the conveyor in thc1atcroi discharge trough, the Sprocket belt ofv thc/latter driving` connection'being shiftable from one sido of the apparatus to the other.

1in apparatus for removing snow com- 115 pricing an appropriately supported main treme, on elevator 'frame carried thereby and having sides, an endless conveyor in thc elevntor frame and between the sides thereq of, a rock shaft journeed in the Sides of the' elevator frame yadjacent to the lowerend thereof, a shoe fixed to lsaidrock shaft and disposed and adjustable between. the sides of the. elevator frame, a Worin gear ixed on said 'rock shaft anderranged adjacent to but X25 cxteriorly of one side of the elevator freine,

4a shaft jonrnaled on the main frame and own-ded with o, handle, and e ,ivorni izred to said she't't end intermcshed with said Worin.

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3. In an apparatus for removing snow, the combination of a main fra-me having cradles atuts sides, a discharge trough dlsposed at one side of the apparatus and extending laterally from the main frame and detachable and shftable bodily from one side of the apparatus to the other side thereof, a shaft journa'led in the lateral discharge trough and removably seated in one of the said l0 cradles, means for transmitting rotary motion to said shaft, an endless conveyor inl the discharge trough and connected with and driven by said shaft, und means interposed between and connected with the main frame and the outer portion of the discharge 15 trough for maintaining sald trough 111 inclined position.

In testimony whereof Lafix my signature.

` Josemi KLAM'L. 

